Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Blair P. Houghton wrote: > > I'm saying that the change from Oracle 9 to Oracle 10 is like changing > > from ffs to fat32. > > well, I'm quite sure that the people I know who's spending a lot of > their time moving stuff from Oracle N to Oracle N+1 (and sometimes > getting stuck, due to incompatibilities between SQL and SQL and a lack > of infinite resources) would say you're completely and utterly nuts.
Maybe they'd just be hyperbolic from the frustration. Filesystems /are/ databases, and incompatibilities /are/ incompatibilities. And without ANSI, the SQL problem could be like incompatibilities in C. Not unheard-of. Not at all. --Blair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list